Clinical
Professor Katherine Brem spoke Saturday, November 10th
2001 at Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of
Law on tips for taking the essay and multistate practice test portions
of the Texas Bar Exam.

Professor
Johnny Rex Buckles’ article, "The Case for the Taxpaying
Good Samaritan: Deducting Earmarked Transfers to Charity under Federal Income
Tax Law, Theory and Policy," has been accepted for publication in
the Fordham Law Review.

Professor
Seth Chandler’s article, “Visualizing Adverse Selection: An
Economic Approach to the Law of Insurance Underwriting,” has been accepted
for publication in the Spring 2002 issue of the Connecticut Insurance
Law Journal.

Professor
David R. Dow’s essay, “War Leads to the Erosion of Civil Liberties,”
was syndicated by the Progressive Media Project and distributed by
Knight Ridder to various newspapers on October 2nd. His
essay, "States’ Rights Lose Again in the Bush Administration,"
dealing with the Bush's Administration's response to Oregon's assisted suicide
law, appeared in the Dallas Morning News on November 13th
2001. Prof. Dow recently filed a Petition for Certiorari to the
United States Supreme Court on behalf of death row inmate Johnny Joe
Martinez, whom he has been appointed to represent; Prof. Dow's co-counsel is
Andrew Hammel, a Law Center alum now teaching in Germany.

Professor
Sanford Gaines made a presentation on "Reflexive Law Lessons
for Sustainable Development" on October 13th at a conference
at the SUNY-Buffalo Law School on Environmental Law & Stewardship
for a Sustainable Society. Along with other Law Center colleagues (Professors
Stephen Zamora, Tom Oldham, Laura Oren and with Sharon Gibson-Mainka), Prof.
Gaines participated in the three-day curriculum development workshop for the
North American Consortium on Legal Education held November 9th-11th
2001.

Associate
Dean Sandra Guerra-Thompson has been appointed as an Advisor
on the new American Law Institute's Model Penal Code: Sentencing
Project. The project will endeavor to draft a model for sentencing laws
at the state level and is expected to last for approximately five years.

Professor
Paul Janicke co-chaired the Law Center’s Institute for
Intellectual Property & Information Law’s Annual Conference
November 8th-10th in Galveston, which enjoyed full capacity
attendance (160). On November 12th Prof. Janicke spoke on the
past year's developments in patent law at the Center for American &
International Law Study’s (formerly, Southwestern Legal Foundation’s)
39th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference in Dallas.

Professor
Craig Joyce presented the faculty the Facilities Committee’s
comprehensive recommendation, culminating five months' work, for a build-back
of the Law Center's buildings damaged by Tropical Storm Allison.
Prof. Joyce also attended the American Society for Legal History's Annual
Meeting in Chicago, where he was reappointed as Chair of the
Committee on Conferences & the Annual Meeting. (The University
of Houston Law Center hosted the 25th Anniversary Gala National Meeting
in 1996.) Prof. Joyce has served continuously as an officer, Executive
Committee member, board member or committee chair of the Society since
1981, a Society record.

Professor
Douglas Moll was interviewed by KUHF and the Dallas Morning
News about the Dynegy-Enron merger. Portions of the KUHF interview
were aired on the local NPR broadcast, and portions of the Dallas Morning
News interview appeared in a November 10th 2001 article.
On November 13th Prof. Moll spoke to the faculty at Florida State
University College of Law about his recent article, "Shareholder
Oppression & Reasonable Expectations: Of Change, Gifts, and Inheritances
in Close Corporation Disputes," which is forthcoming in the Minnesota
Law Review. Prof. Moll was invited to FSU as a faculty enrichment
speaker.

Professor
Thomas Oldham has been invited to talk next spring at Whittier
Law School.

Professor
Michael A. Olivas was elected Chair of the University
of Houston’s Esther Farfel Award Selection Committee; and delivered
a paper on legal issues concerning colleges at the Association for the Study
of Higher Education’s Annual Meeting in Richmond, VA. Prof. Olivas
was one of two candidates to run for the position of ASHE president, coming
in second, and thereby becoming the Association’s Harold Stassen.

Professor
Jordan Paust was a panelist during the annual meeting of the American
Branch of the International Law Association in New York City,
October 25-27th. Prof. Paust’s paper, "Sanctions Against
Non-State Actors for Violations of International Law," will be published
in the ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law, which
publishes the conference papers. He was also a panelist at a Human Rights
Conference at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada,
on November 3rd, and his paper, "The Right to Life in Human
Rights Law and the Law of War," will be published in the Saskatchewan
Law Review. Prof. Paust will also be a panelist during the National
Workshop for District Judges sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center
in early December. As noted last month, Prof. Paust was interviewed several
times by various media, and his comments now spread throughout the country and
world (e.g., Newhouse News Service, The Hindu,
Pittsburgh- Post Gazette, Los Angeles Times,
New Jersey Star-Ledger, etc.).

Clinical
Professor Susan Rachlin spoke Saturday, November 10th
2001 at Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of
Law on how to write a law school exam.

Dean
Nancy Rapoport was sworn into the Texas Bar November 12th,
along with Mr. Russell Chorush, UHLC Class of 2001, who made the highest grade
on the July 2001 Texas Bar Exam and delivered a wonderful speech at the swearing-in
ceremony in Austin, including the line "I received a first-rate education
at a third-world price."

Professor
William P. Streng’s Fall 2001 activities include a 2001 Supplement
to his book U.S. International Estate Planning (Warren, Gorham
& Lamont/RIAG); a 2001-2 Supplement to Bittker, Emory & Streng’s
Federal Income Taxation of Corporations & Shareholders-Forms
(4th ed.), Warren, Gorham & Lamont/RIAG (released) & Supplement
2001-3 has been submitted for publication; & Number 32 Supplementing
Streng & Salacuse’s six volume treatise, International Business Planning:
Law and Taxation - United States (Matthew Bender) has been published
and the manuscript for volume 33 has been transmitted for publication.

Prof.
Streng’s article, “U.S. Income Taxation of Foreign Persons Engaged in a
U.S. Trade or Business ” was included in one of the multiple volumes issued
in conjunction with the Practising Law Institute’s Fall 2001 program
Tax Strategies for Corporate Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin-offs, Joint
Ventures, Financing Reorganizations & Restructurings 2001. Prof.
Streng spoke at the Florida State Bar program in Miami entitled “Estate
Planning for the International Law Client” on one of the ultimate U.S.
tax planning arrangements: “Expatriation and Related Effects for Taxation
Purposes.”

Prof.
Streng also participated in the 55th Congress of the International
Fiscal Association in San Francisco, California, & his article,
“U.S. Income Taxation of Foreign Investment in U.S. Real Estate” was
included in the Special Issue (for this IFA Congress) of the
Bulletin for International Fiscal Documentation, published by
the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (Amsterdam).
As the primary U.S. national co-reporter for the year 2002 Congress in Oslo,
Norway, Prof. Streng provided the U.S. report entitled “Form
& Substance in Tax Law” for the general discussion of that subject.
For the benefit of the General Reporter at that forthcoming Congress
he has also provided a background paper concerning certain U.S. tax rules relevant
to this topic. Prof. Streng was also invited to become a member of the European
Association of Tax Law Professors.

During
the Spring Semester, 2002, Prof. Streng will be a Visiting Professor
at The University of Texas School of Law, teaching Federal Income
Tax and International Taxation.

Clinical
Professor Joseph Vail spoke October 12th to the University
of Texas Immigration Conference in San Antonio on proposed changes to the
law relating to security and terrorism grounds of inadmissibility for immigrants
after September 11th 2001; and, on November 10th, to the
National Asian Pacific American Law Student Association conference at
South Texas College of Law on the history of ideological and security
related grounds of inadmissibility for immigrants. Prof. Vail’s dance card
is rapidly filling up through the 1st quarter of next year.

Professor
Stephen Zamora, along with Professors Laura Oren, Sanford
Gains & Thomas Oldham, attended a curriculum development workshop
sponsored by NACLE, the North American Consortium for Legal Education,
which is headquartered at the Law Center. The workshop, funded by a
FIPSE grant from the U.S. Department of Education, brought together
24 law professors from the nine NACLE member schools in Canada, Mexico and the
U.S. The workshop was evenly divided between experts on family law (Professors
Oldham & Oren included), environmental law (Professor Gaines)
and NAFTA (Professor Zamora). In addition to exchanging ideas, the
participants focused their attention on designing web-based course materials
that will engage U.S., Canadian and Mexican law students in dialogues over issues
of concern to all three countries. Professor Seth Chandler
will host a similar workshop with NACLE health law experts, to take place in
Houston in late January 2002. NACLE intends to convene additional workshops
in 2002 and 2003.